The Huffington Post thinks we’ve all been keeping our climate alarmist views in the closet. Apparently we’re all quietly worried, but we lack the courage to face our friends, and admit our guilty secret.
…if the vast majority of Americans are still not even talking about climate change, we will never break through these obstacles and put irresistible pressure on Congress and every other opponent to stop fighting all reasonable actions to combat climate change and finally take positive action-for the sake of their own children and grandchildren if no one else’s.
So how does this change? How do we change it?
As I have written elsewhere, the model of gay and lesbian Americans “coming out” is a good one. Not perfect but we don’t need perfect. We need action. And what gays and lesbians proved is that one-on-one communication is a deeply powerful tool for creating social change.
The teenager, the mother, the husband, the actress, the Congressman, the Olympian, the football star-all the many people who said simply, “I’m gay,” changed the world. Their world, and our world. By making their issue personal, and taking one small brave step, they moved hearts and minds that may never have opened and changed in any other way.
That is what I believe all of us who are concerned about climate change need to do–in addition to all the other necessary political and practical actions.
For once I’m at a bit of a loss to know what to say. The Huff Post article, which conflates sexual freedom and climate alarmism, has got to be one of the strangest and most desperate theories I have ever read, for why nobody talks about climate change.
what utter nonsense from the Huffington Post on climate change. the latest Pew opinion poll puts global warming at the bottom of the public`s concerns about climate change. It is a vote loser! Professor Murry Salby`s latest lecture on atmospheric CO2 given in Westminster London on 17 March this year and now on U-Tube gives conclusive evidence that the entire CO2 in the atmosphere is coming from natural sources such as plant decomposition and ocean de-gassing. The amount coming from the use of fossil fuels he found to be insignificant!. So much for the “experts” in the Huffington Post.
I do not agree the amount is insignificant. Fully 3% of CO2 emissions are anthropogenic, and they are added to a (mostly) closed cycle: Exchanges between atmo and soils/biomass and atmo and oceans, with a chunk lost to calcification. As a result, atmospheric CO2 is increasing by 0.4%, annually. Face it. The CO2 part is for real. The mild lukewarming as a result of raw CO2 forcing is real, too.
As a former global warming believer, the more I found out about climate alarmism, the more I found that it is a political propaganda campaign run by big government interests, crony climate “study” groups, and crony “green” energy companies.
Actually, people need to feel free to come out regarding their skepticism.
The [anthropogenic] trans-climate movement likes to place people in little labeled boxes. They selective exclude people who do not conform to their social and political consensus, who are typically people that are climate normal or agnostic.
Will I be forced to bake a cake for a Greepeace rally?
So long as you don’t use any condiment to make it rise, because that’ll be carbon dioxide that makes it so.
This sort of desperate, raving drivel is increasingly more common and comes from all the usual suspects ( lets face it the Huff n Puff Post is a usual suspect) who are really only truly revealing their essential nature with this sort of fruit loop nonsense. Desperate little wannabe’s who need something to belong to and something that is rebranded to a new improved edition fairly regularly.
If they were not so ludicrous they would be sad and pitiful.
I am so very happy with this Huffington Post article. It feels like a great load has been taken off my chest (and out of my pants). Finally, after reading that article I have found the courage to come out of the closet. Am I homosexual? No. Am I a man trapped in a woman’s body? No (but I am trapped in a crappy body). Am I a transvestite? No. Am I transgendered? No. Am I bisexual? No. I … I … am … an Anthropo Genital Climasexual.
I’m a l3sbian trapped in a man’s body! Can I get victimhood status and special rights? 🙂
So, you’re a meteorosexual instead of a metrosexual?
In the list of possible reasons, for not being more ‘out’ on AWG, she left out the most important one.
Many don’t buy the hype.
Hello, my name is Steve and I’m a climate skeptic…..
where have you been all of my life?
Climate Skeptics Anonymous?
This Huff Pro piece basically shows how deluded these people are. We have been hearing for more than 20 years about how the world will be ending because of global warming. Nothing has happened. People are tired of the message. The lesson of the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” must have been lost on the alarmists as children.
By changing the term from Global Warming to Climate Change, zealots now believe that record cold is caused by the warming from CO2. With most of the major metro centers from the Midwest to DC having experienced two very tough winters in a row, it begs the question, “How much colder must it get to reach optimal temperatures per the IPCC?”
The logic must be:
CO2 causes warming -> Leading to record cold in some places -> Therefore we must eliminate fossil fuels
The results would then be:
Lower CO2 causes cooling -> Leading to an ice age -> Therefore we all freeze to death since fossil fuels are the only reliable source of heat during colder, shorter, winter days.
Pictures of dead people next to their solar panels will be quite the testament by those who have “come out”.
It is bizarre times we live in.
Let’s be honest. Huffpost wants alarmists to ‘kick it up a notch’ and solve the problem, permanently.
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Anthony: A disgusting image that has no place on your blog – for whatever misguided reason.
The ironic thing about that article is that it really is dangerous to “come out” and say you are a skeptic or question whether or not CO2 emissions will cause long term problems….
What “reasonable actions to combat climate change” are they referring to? Even Hansen admitted that carbon credits won’t work. Sending us back to the stone age by banning fossil fuels might reduce a small amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but I don’t consider it a “reasonable action.” So what actions are they talking about, and how do they know a change in climate won’t make us better off?
Nature is [their] religion. Any change, if it is caused by man, is by definition evil.
Fossil fuels will only be banned in the US, Canada, Australia and the EU . The rest of the world will carry on with cheaper fuel because there are fewer customers and prices will drop . Also the vast sum of money promised to the rest of the world by Obama, Milliband , etc will pay for a good few coal and gas power stations in India and Africa .
American’s don’t even list climate among their top 14 concerns, according to the latest Gallop Poll…
see: http://www.gallup.com/poll/181946/americans-name-government-no-problem.aspx?utm_source=US%20concerns&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=tiles
Dissatisfaction with Government is the TOP concern.
It’s also my top concern.
“Dissatisfaction with Government is the TOP concern.”
So there should be no doubt now as to why government says that the climate is the #1 concern…
“The model of gay and lesbian Americans “coming out” is a good one. Not perfect but we don’t need perfect. We need action.”
True. We need to admit that skeptics were mostly right; that our predictions turned out all wrong; that the Big Oil has bribed Mother Nature herself and she now stubbornly disrespects even the best climate models. Action!
I’ve noticed this tendency amongst leftitsts. To assume that everyone agrees with them, but are being suppressed by evil people.
My wife told me about an interview she saw with a famous Hollywood maven from the 1960’s. She talked about how everyone she knew voted against Nixon, but in the back of her mind she knew there were people out there, somewhere, who actually voted for Nixon. Not only a few people, a lot of them, somewhere out there.
There is a tendency to get into insular bubbles where groupthink gets reinforced and people start believing that everyone thinks the same way. Liberals in particular seem at risk of this, due to their perceptions that they have a monopoly on education and scholarly thinking. It’s easy to extrapolate this into the idea that their way of thinking is the only proper way, and that everyone else must agree or would be forced to agree once properly educated.
Of course, they then leave their ivory towers to slum for votes every election, where they jettison all their scholarly thinking to simplify things down to the most basic ‘us against them’ of even just ‘vote us’ propaganda to sway the unwashed masses.
I can feel them in the atmosphere.
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My comment on the Huffpost article:
So, what we need is more climate alarmist propaganda from the media? Or could it be that the general climate apathy among Americans reflects their growing realization that Earth simply isn’t delivering the extraordinary warming predicted by our very sophisticated, trustworthy, and expensive climate models? Maybe (just maybe) what we really need is a little more accountability from the climate modelers and a little less credulous Chicken Little climate alarmism.
It takes great courage to stand up in support of the massive intergovernmental push to adopt worldwide climate alarmism as a matter of policy… in Bizarro world.
I went ahead and read through the comments. It was interesting to note that the comments were just about evenly split between alarmists and skeptics. I suspect the Huff Post editors are shocked to discover there are skeptics among their readers.
Well, that’s obviously the paid big oil trolls from WUWT and K*ch Br*s ruining things for everybody else! /s
It should be renamed HUFFINGton PAINT.
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That’s a terrible analogy they chose.
If you tell me you’re gay and you need me to respect that fact and to show a little empathy, fine, I can do that. It costs me nothing, and if it makes your life better, then all is good, some are better off, no one is worse off.
But if you tell me that the entire society must artificially restrict our use of fossil fuels, to artificially jack up the cost of everything that is transported, to, in effect, lower my standard of living (and yours), to no real effect on the climate, but just so YOU can feel better about yourself, well, now I have an objection. When our primary schools send their students home to lecture their parents, they’re saying, “hey, mommy and daddy, look at what a good job the leftist, bureaucratic school system did at brainwashing me.”
Well said Mickey.
Sadly, you will not change the mind of the leftist/socialist with this argument.
They will just call you selfish.
Belief in manmade climate, unlike sexual preference is an illness. It is curable, but they have to want to be cured first. Then, all that is required is a thirst for knowledge and a quest for the truth, no matter how painful that might be. Of course, if they start “coming out”, people may just want to avoid them like the plague. Maybe it would be best if they kept quiet.
I use to read HuffPo occasionally for balance, not wishing to fall into the liberal trap of extreme confirmation bias. However, I must admit they are making it progressively more difficult to swallow some of the ridiculous garbage they are currently preaching.
I was under the impression that they truly believed it was everyone except us skeptics that were running around like Chicken Little. So, at least they aren’t so delusional to think that everyone is a practicing alarmist, just delusional enough to think that everyone is a closet alarmist.
It is actually the reverse. I think some people are afraid to open up about their skeptical viewpoints..
That’s quite so…one can be treated like a social pariah for daring to voice doubts about AGW.